In late July 2011, Norway was struck by the worst terror attacks in
its history. In a fertilizer-bomb attack on Government Headquarters in
Oslo and a one-hour-long shooting spree at the Labour Party Youth Camp
at Utøya, seventy-seven people, mostly teenagers, were killed by
Anders Behring Breivik. By targeting young future social democratic
leaders, his actions were meant to lead to the downfall of Europe's
purportedly multiculturalist elites, thus removing an obstacle to his
plans for an ethnic cleansing of Muslims from Europe. In this highly
original work, leading Norwegian social anthropologist Sindre Bangstad
reveals how Breivik's beliefs were not simply the result of a deranged
mind, but rather they are the result of the political mainstreaming of
pernicious racist and Islamophobic discourses. These ideas, currently
gaining common currency, threaten equal rights to dignity, citizenship
and democratic participation for minorities throughout contemporary
Europe. An authoritative account of the Norwegian terror attacks and
the neo-racist discourse that motivated them.
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ISBN
9781783600106
Publisert
2017
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Zed Books
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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